Trailing

25.05.2013
Zoran Erceg (photo T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
In the Game 1 of VTB League semifinal series our team was down by double-digit margin but managed to turn the game over. Still it was not enough to win.

Khimki Moscow Region vs. CSKA: 83-80 (-3)

Ettore Messina, CSKA head coach:
I think in the first half we did not show enough togetherness in comparison to our previous game. Still we played good second half and we made the game to be decided by small details in the end. I am pleased with the team’s effort, improved defense and better ball movement. For sure we did not have an answer to Zoran Planinic today and hopefully we will do better work on him tomorrow. We don’t have Sonny Weems, Sasha Kaun has pain in his knee which becomes worse and worse every day, Victor Khryapa is banged up and in the second game it will be even more difficult for them to play. So we have to use wider rotation.

Photos
Nenad Krstic (photo M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Milos Teodosic (photo M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Evgeniy Voronov (photo M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Aaron Lee Jackson (photo M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Alexandr Kaun (photo T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
Victor Khryapa (photo T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
CSKA (photo M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Andrey Vatutin (photo T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
Vladimir Micov (photo T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
(photo M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
CSKA (photo T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
Zoran Erceg (photo T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
Milos Teodosic (photo T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
Andrey Vorontsevich (photo T. Makeeva, cskabasket.com)
Victor Khryapa (photo M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Vladimir Micov (photo M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Alexandr Kaun (photo M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
Andrey Vorontsevich (photo M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)